{"id":53147,"date":"2026-05-20T07:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T11:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=53147"},"modified":"2026-05-16T08:28:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T12:28:05","slug":"every-bugs-bunny-ever-the-unmentionables-1963","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/20\/every-bugs-bunny-ever-the-unmentionables-1963\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Bugs Bunny Ever: The Unmentionables (1963)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Unmentionables <\/strong>(1963)<br \/>\nDirected by Friz Freleng<br \/>\nStory by John Dunn<br \/>\nAnimation by Gerry Chiniquy, Virgil Ross, Bob Matz, Art Leonardi, Lee Halpern<br \/>\nMusic by Bill Lava<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Unmentionables\u201d is a spoof of the then-popular television series \u201cThe Untouchables,\u201d with Bugs Bunny as the federal agent Elegant Mess (a riff on the series\u2019 crime fighter Elliot Ness). He is tasked with bringing in the notorious underworld figures Rocky and Mugsy, but he does his job a little too well. Bugs handcuffs the miscreants to his wrists and marches them to justice, but winds up serving their prison sentence with them because he lost the handcuff keys.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This cartoon gets off to a stylish launch by recalling the distinctive comic book art style of the Roaring Twenties. Bill Lava\u2019s score perfectly recalls the jazzy sounds of that reckless era.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the story quickly bogs down into segments that never fulfill their promise. Bugs looks great in his drag disguise as a Charleston-dancing flapper, but the sequence goes nowhere as his repeated wild high-kicks assault the slow-moving Rocky. The climactic chase through a breakfast cereal factory has a few stylish visual elements before collapsing into predictable sight gags with Rocky and Mugsy going through the mechanical processing system before being boxed into cereal packaging.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Unmentionables&#8221; was the last Golden Age Bugs Bunny cartoon directed by Friz Freleng. Unfortunately, his work by this time lacked spark and imagination. It is a shame this weak cartoon was his sign-off from the Bugs Bunny series. <\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most curious aspect of \u201cThe Unmentionables\u201d came in the opening credits, with Ralph Harris sharing voice characterization acknowledgment with Mel Blanc. Harris impersonates the Walter Winchell narration of \u201cThe Untouchables\u201d and he does a decent job, but it is odd that he would get credit while other notable voice actors in the Golden Age shorts \u2013 especially Arthur Q. Bryan, the voice of Elmer Fudd \u2013 were never acknowledged. Julie Bennett, who is briefly heard as a Brooklynese telephone operator, is not credited for her work. <\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player.html?video=x5x8jz0\"style=\"width:100%; height:100%; position:absolute; left:0px; top:0px; overflow:hidden; border:none;\"allowfullscreentitle=\"Dailymotion Video Player\"allow=\"web-share\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Unmentionables (1963) Directed by Friz Freleng Story by John Dunn Animation by Gerry Chiniquy, Virgil Ross, Bob Matz, Art Leonardi, Lee Halpern Music by Bill Lava \u201cThe Unmentionables\u201d is a spoof of the then-popular television series \u201cThe Untouchables,\u201d with Bugs Bunny as the federal agent Elegant Mess (a riff on the series\u2019 crime fighter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":53148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3068],"tags":[99,167,3490,4024],"class_list":["post-53147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bugs-bunny-ever","tag-animation","tag-bugs-bunny","tag-friz-freleng","tag-the-untouchables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53147"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53154,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53147\/revisions\/53154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}